Sequel Chords by Harry Chapin

[G] So here [Em] she's acting happy [D] inside [Bm] her handsome home.
[G] And me, [D] I'm flying in my taxi, [C] taking [A#] tips and [D] getting stoned.
I .
[F#] [D] got into town a little early, had eight hours to kill before the show.
First I thought about heading up north to the [C] bay, then I knew [A#] where I had to [D] go.
[Am] I [D] .
thought [Am] about taking a [D] limousine, [Am] .
[D] or at least a [Am] fancy [D] car .
But I ended [Am] up taking [D] a taxi, [Am] .
[C] cause that's [A#] how I got [D] this far .
You [G] see, ten years ago it [Em] was the front seat, [D] driving stoned and feeling [Bm] no pain.
[Em] Now [G] here I am straight, [D] and sitting in the back, [C] hitting [A#] sixteen [D] Parkside Lane.
The .
[C] [Gm] [D] .
[C] [E] .
driveway was the same as I remembered, and a booklet came and answered the door.
[Bm] He [E] just shook his head when I asked for her, [D] and said she doesn't live here [E].
anymore.
[D] [Am] [E] .
Body offer to give me the address, that they were forwarding her letters to.
I just took it and returned to the cabbie and said I [D] got one [Am] more fare [E] for you.
[D] And [Am] [E] .
so we rode back into [G] the city, up [A] to a five story old [C].
brownstone.
I [D] rang the bell and had her name [E] on the mailbox, [D] the buzzer [Am] said [E] somebody's home.
[Am] And [E] .
[Am] [E] .
the look on her face [G] as she opened the door was [A] like an old joke told [C] by a friend.
It'd [D] taken ten more years but [E] she'd found her smile, [D] and I watched [Am] the corner [E] start to bend .
[A] And she said, how are [F#m] you Harry, [E] haven't we played this scene before.
[Bm] [A] I said, it's so [E] good to see you Sue, and to play [Am] it out just [E] once more.
[D] Play it out [G] just [E] once more.
[Bm] [E] .
[Em] [D] [A] [E] .
She said I've heard you flying high on my radio, I said it's not all it seems.
That's when she laughed and she said, it's better [D] sometimes when we don't get [A] to touch [E] our dreams.
[D] .
[Am] [E] [D] .
[Am] [E] That's [A] when I asked her where was that [F#m] actress, [C#m] she said that was [B] somebody [E] else.
And then [C#m] I asked her why she looked so happy [E] now, she [D] said I finally like myself .
At last I like [E] myself .
[G#m] .
[E] [G#] .
[C#] .
[F#m] .
[F#] .
[Am] .
[E] .
So we talked all through that afternoon, talking about where we'd been.
We talked of the tiny difference [C#] between ending and starting to begin.
[F#m] We talked cause talking tells you things like what you really [F#] are thinking [D] about.
[Am] But sometimes you can't [C] find what you're feeling [E] till all your words run out .
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So I asked her to come to the concert, she said no I work at night.
I said we've gotten too damn good at leaving Sue, [D] she said [A] Harry [E] you're right.
[Am] [E] .
[D] [Am] [E] .
Don't [A] ask me if I made [F#m] love to her, or [E] which one of us started to [Bm] cry.
[E] [A] Don't [C#m] ask me why she wouldn't take the [E] money that I left, [Am] if I answered it [E] all that lie.
[D] So [Am] [E] .
[C] [A#] [D] .
I thought about her as I sang that night, and how the circle keeps rolling around.
How I act as I'm facing the footlights, and [C] how she's flying [Gm] with both feet [D] on the ground.
I .
[G] guess it's a sequel [Em] to our story from [Bm] the journey between heaven and hell .
[G] With half the time thinking [D] of what might have been, [C] and half [Gm] thinking [D] just as well.
I guess [Em] .
only [A] .
time [D] will .
[G] tell.
[D] .
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